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City of Columbia Heights | Library]
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To: Renee Dougherty, Library Director
From: Winnie Coyne – Library Clerk
Subject: January Operational Report
Date: January 29th, 2021
I. COLLECTION PROJECTS
A. Magazines: Magazine labels were typed for newly received magazines.
B. Damaged Shelf: Items older than 1 month were cleared from the shelf this month.
C. Paperback order: No paperback orders were sent this month.
D. Book Display: There was no display this month since we are encouraging patrons to limit
their time in the building to 90 minutes and seating by the fireplace is blocked off.
E. Weeding Projects: Renee and Bri are regularly giving me books to withdraw.
F. Withdrawn items: Books are withdrawn from the system each week and are placed in a box
to go to Better World Books if they are accepted by the company. If not or if they are in very
bad shape they are recycled.
II. MAINTENANCE
A. Fire extinguisher: The fire extinguishers were checked January 7th.
B. Security gates: Security gates were checked twice daily to record the gatecount.
C. Public Works: This month, Public Works was here to take care of snow and ice removal.
D. ILL Drawer: The ILL drawer is no longer needed; the Anoka County Libraries now generate a
report that tallies the ILLs for each month.
E. Month End Statistics: The statistics for the previous month will be totaled and sent to staff
by Friday, February 5th.
F. Bulletin Board: Old notices are removed once they have expired or have been up for thirty
days and new notices are put up as we receive them. Right now our notices are mainly job
openings within the city, economic assistance programs, and CareerForce information.
G. Shelf Reading: Shelf reading assignments were done by the pages.
H. Website and Facebook: Periodic updates of both Facebook and the web page were
completed. Both pages feature recurring and one-time events. Stay at Home Storytime
premieres every Monday at 10:30 AM, the streaming service Kanopy is newly available to
Columbia Heights patrons and was shared on our page, and we also shared information about
our Winter Reads program and Fine Read Down program.